Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.21.195

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[195] πάλιν δὲ ἐνταῦθα οὐ φωνομαχοῦμεν, οὐδὲ εἰ φύσει ταῦτα δηλοῦσιν αἱ φωναί, ζητοῦμεν, ἀλλ’ ἀδιαφόρως αὐτάς, ὡς εἶπον, παραλαμβάνομεν. ὅτι μέντοι αὗται αἱ φωναὶ ἀφασίας εἰσὶ δηλωτικαί, πρόδηλον, οἶμαι.
ὁ γοῦν λέγων ‘τάχα ἔστιν’ δυνάμει τίθησι καὶ τὸ μάχεσθαι δοκοῦν αὐτῷ, τὸ ‘τάχα μὴ εἶναι’. τῷ μὴ διαβεβαιοῦσθαι περὶ τοῦ εἶναι αὐτό. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἔχει.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. ed. Hermann Mutschmann. Germany. 2014.

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes (Greek) (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.)

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 1.21.195 focus

[195] But here again we do not fight about phrases nor do we inquire whether the phrases indicate realities, but we adopt them, as I said,¹ in a loose sense. Still it is evident, as I think, that these expressions are indicative of non-assertion. Certainly the person who says ‟perhaps it is” is implicitly affirming also the seemingly contradictory phrase ‟perhaps it is not” by his refusal to make the positive assertion that ‟it is.” And the same applies to all the other cases.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 31 post κοινῶς inser. τε L 1 ἄρνησιν AB 2/3 σημαῖνον (sic) L 5 ἐλέγομεν T (dicebamus) 6 οὔτε T (neque): οὐδὲ G
τοῦ ἀδήλου dub. Bekk. 22 μονομαχοῦμεν EAB 23 ταὐτὰ Pappenheim dubit.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.21.195

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